Victoria Bitter

Victoria Bitter has been Australia’s favourite full strength beer brand for many years. VB, as it is widely known, was first brewed in 1854 by Thomas Aitken and since then has developed a reputation as a great beer with a tradition of rewarding Australians who work hard.

The alcohol percentage went down from 4.8% to 4.6% in 2009, but was relaunched at its original strength of 4.9% in 2012.

707 reviews

Southbank, Australia

Community reviews

5.0 Fuck all you 'aussie' bastards who say VB is dirty

0.5 Another pile of utter garbage from what used to be called C.U.B. now owned by Asahi. Used to work for them as a Sparky for 8 years and can categorically say this is rubbish of a high order. I've seen how they make their 'beers'. 37 chemicals, some water and sheep drool. This was the main beer in Victoria for decades and so many people only ever tasted it so they will still think its a good beer but once you get out and let your palate recover you see its not even worth washing your car with it. Id give all their beers a zero in every category but the system wont let me. Aroma - Fried Monkey Butt Appearance - Bottled Diarrhea Taste - Pond Scum Mouthfeel - Greasy Unspat-out Snot Overall - (I'll be nice) Vile. You can see why dogs lick their balls just to get rid of the taste.

3.4 Aroma: Medium light corn. Appearance: Brilliant, gold body, Medium, white head. Fair retention. Flavour: Medium corn, medium-light bitterness. Dry finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium carbonation. Overall: The beer is OK. It matches the style and it is clean, Can, poured.

1.4 Aroma : Light sweet caramel malt, tiny grassy hop. Taste : Thin sweet maltiness. A touch of herbal bitterness in the aftertaste. Very boring!

1.5 It's fine, you can do much better but also fairly worse. Not as good as Carlton Dry or XXXX but much better than Great Northern. Unremarkable lager. A drink for getting drunk.

2.9 Clear amber with a thin white head. Light malt aroma, flavour is malty caramel with very little hip balance. Sticky

2.2 This one is an easy drinker, you might say a typical Euro Lager. Not that good, but not that bad either.

2.9 A very, very tame lager. No sickliness and no unpleasant backtaste or anything which is a plus so it's very drinkable with a little, bitter hop aftertaste and it's fairly crisp but other than "you can happily guzzle some out in the sun" there's not a lot else I feel about it.

3.7 Mums

3.0 Melbourne's favourite big brewery lager. Or it used to be. Now they hide it out back in the coolstore and craft beers line the shelves. Probably where it belongs but it's got more malt than a eurolager even if the initial sugar hit can be off putting. VB is not bitter at all, and there's no bitter after taste, just lingering malt as the sweetness subsides. Put it in a green long neck and it could rule at summer BBQs again. Fleeting head means it's best served chilled in the bottle. Worth a revisit.

2.8 Light malty body, with a bread aroma. Light bodied, this is a pale lager, not a bitter. Thin finish,

2.2 375ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear deep gold with a small white head. Aroma and taste is cardboard and malt. Light bitter finish. Painfully macro, but I like the bottle design and labelling.

2.1 Pretty average lager with good maltiness. Very little bitterness at the end

2.1 0,375l bottle from BWS East Perth, shared with wiosna @ Pan Pacific. Pours clear golden with a low head. Aroma is slightly sweet malts. Flavor is slightly sweet malts with some metallic notes and some hops. Not great. Drinkable.

3.0 Boring but consistent Melbourne beer. Best cold - don't let it warm up. Malt forward, no huge hop aroma. Bitterness on the aftertaste. Unpretentious CUB classic. Excellent for post lawnmowing.

3.9 cheap aussie beer on sale in Liquor stores and supermarkets across New Zealand...strong aroma, bitter taste with a slight citrusy malt finish, good if your on a budget ($10.90 x 6 pack) for 1.4 std per can/stubbie

5.0 Tried a few at the local dive, golden appearance, light on the nose. Slight bitter tasting lager, best real cold. Easily sessionable out of cans, bottles or tap.

2.5 Pretty average, but easy to drink with a bit of bittery taste in the end. It's a better one among the cheap beers.

4.5 Tastes like river water but by god this is the taste of the country and I wouldn't change it for anything

3.2 You can get it any old way

2.0 Pretty stock Australian beer. Best served cold. Pours golden, with a mild hop finish.

3.6 The beer kiwis love to hate because it's Australian It's actually a good value quaffer chilled right down and has that bitter finish Better option than other mass produced options in NZ and many of the local over hopped over priced craft offerings

1.9 Bottle from beerhawk. Clear golden appearance. Aroma is sweet, corn and grassy. Flavour is bitter, dry, herbal and sweet.

2.0 Bottle (TCrBF 2019). Straight from the bottle. Sweet, malty, caramel, papery in aroma and in taste. Happens.

1.7 Bottle at TCrBF 2019. Pours golden. Aroma and flavor are awful grains, wet paper, etc. Overall: really bad.

1.4 Only for dinosaurs. Seriously I drank this in the 80's and 90's because craft hadn't arrived and imports were expensive. Don't touch the stuff now, average swill at best

2.6 Gold with a frothy white head. Grassy aroma, papery. Taste is uniformly mild bitter. Dry at the end with a hint of butter. Medium body, relatively süffig. I’ve had far worse.

2.7 Iconic Australian beer, won't win any awards for it's taste but still gets the job done. There are worse beers out there.

2.1 @ Australië 2012

1.0 Very bad. An extremely bitter beer with strange notes that comes only with a mass production like this.